Private Military Groups
Private military groups and contractors operate in armed conflicts, creating risks to civilians, accountability, governance, and contractor personnel. The supplied evidence documents contractor deaths but does not support a global estimate of civilian harm, displacement, affected populations, economic losses, or environmental damage attributable specifically to these groups.
Severity score
35.8
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
35Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
38People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
40Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
15Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
55Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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